A beautiful, organized room.
A clean, uncluttered home is an ideal aspiration that many people continuously try to achieve without long-lasting success. What separates those who achieve harmony in their homes from those who do not are a series of steps that declutter the home, set up easy daily organizational maintenance and prepare ahead for the additions of new possessions and progressing lifestyles. Does this Spark an idea?
Declutter
Choose one room in your home that you rarely use and designate the room as the clutter room. This is the room that you will place all the clutter from the rest of the house into to be sorted. Purchase three large boxes to place in your clutter room and label each one as Donate, Sell or Unsure.
Construct a list of all of the rooms in your house. Create subheads that include specific problem areas such as under desk trash, under bed storage and closet floor.
Start with your master bedroom. Begin your declutter regimen by throwing away all trash from your master bedroom and its specified problem areas. Take all questionable items into the clutter room and place them in the appropriate boxes. Thoroughly clean the room and put everything in its proper place.
Continue this process room by room until all of your clutter is stored in the boxes in your clutter room. Next, sort through your Unsure box and place items in the Sell or Donate boxes. Donate your chosen items to charity and sell the rest at a yard sale.
Daily Maintenance
Construct a room by room daily maintenance list. This list could include such projects as alphabetizing DVDs and CDs, grouping the clothes in your closet according to style or color or designating spots for keys and important papers. Finalize your list and devote at least 15 minutes per day to complete the scheduled tasks.
Set aside at least 10 to 20 minutes per week to go over your finished tasks and ensure that everything is still in its proper place.
Long-Term Maintenance
As time goes on, you will accumulate more possessions and will need to plan to thwart new clutter before it gets out of hand again. To maintain your organized home, you will need to ask yourself a series of questions to help you determine what your current home organizational needs are.
Ask yourself what specific things need a designated place, if certain items can be put away or if they need to be readily available, what current organizational supplies you need, what new labeling system could replace your current one and if you are satisfied with the look of your current room by room system. You will also need to determine how quickly your new system can become an enjoyable and functional habit.
The answers to these questions will allow you to quickly develop a long-term home organizational maintenance system that will keep your home, and your mind, in perfect order for the rest of your life.
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